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Patented Nov. 8, |898.

J. B. DILLUN.

UMBILICAL BAND'AGE.

(Application led Apr. 18, 1898.)

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JEROME B. DILLON, OF IVIOKLIFFE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGIA i DILLON AND J. H. BLACK, OF SAME PLACE.

UNIBILICAL BANDAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,761, dated November 8, 1898.

Application filed April 18, 1898.

To LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEROME B. DILLoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at lVickliffe, in the county of Ballard and State of Kentucky,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Umbilical Bandages; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in bandages, and especially to a baby bandage designed to be wrapped about the body of an infant for the purpose of protecting the stump of the umbilical cord and providingan absorbent lling in the pad, which isimpregnated with an antiseptic, which may absorb any discharge from the stump.

More specifically, thepresent invention resides in the provision of a babybandage which hassecured thereto a flap whichcarries a pad of antiseptic absorbent cotton, which iap, in connection with a similar absorbent-cotton pad, is held over the end of the stump, which is held by means of a thin rubber disk fastened over an aperture in the bandage.

To these ends and to such others as the invent-ion may pertain the same consists, further, in the novel construction, combination, and adaptation of the parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

My invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this application, and in which drawings- Figure lis a plan View showing the iap with its free end pinned to the bandage, which is the position that the flap assumeswhen the bandage is adjusted for use. Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the flap turned back on the bandage. Fig. 3 is a detail View showing one of the absorbent-cotton pads removed to disclose the apertured rubber disk which receives the end of the stump of the umbilical Serial No. 677,988. (No modeli) cord. Fig. et is a section upon the line 4 4 of Fig. l.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates the bandage, which should be of such a length as to be easily wrapped about the body of the baby and fastened in place. This bandage has a flap B, one end of whichis sewed to the bandage at any suitable location, as shown. On one side of thesaid iiap is sewed or otherwise fas tened an-absorbent-cotton pad O, and D is a similar pad, which is sewed to the bandage in such a position that the pad carried by the flap will fit over the pad on the bandage when the flap is turned over on the band with the pad carried thereby on its under side. Underneath the padD the bandage is apertured, as seen at E, and over this aperture is sewed or otherwise fastened the thin rubber disk F, which has a small central aperture F, over which small aperture is disposed the absorbent cotton. When the bandage is adjusted in place on the body of the infant, the free edge of the flap is pinned to the bandage by the safety-pins, as shown.

In applying the bandage to the infant the stump of the umbilical cord is passed through the aperture in the rubber disk and intothe cotton of which the pad D is composed, the cotton having been parted or separated about the aperture in the rubber disk in order to permit the passage and the end of the stump coming in contact with the cotton, which may have been previously saturated with a medicine of any kind, whereby the cord is kept in a perfectly healthy condition. The rubber will hold the bandage in position, will prevent a discharge from the stump, and the cotton will absorb any discharge which may accident-ally come from the stump, and prevent the discharge from touching the skin of the baby, which would be likely to produce excoriationand sometimes premature Sloughing` of the stump.

lNhen it is desired to examine the stump when a bandage is dressed with my improved bandage, all that is necessary to be done to have access to it is to remove the safety-pins from the edge of the flap and turn the latter back upon the bandage.

Having thus described my invention, what IOO I claim to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described umbilical bandage, the sume comprising L body portion, an opening therein as described, a disk of rubber secured to the bandage, said disk being provided with au aperture registering with the opening in the bandage, e medicated pad D scoured to the bandage directly over the opening in the disk and the hinged flap B having one of :its edges seWed or otherwise secured to the bandage, said iapbeing provided upon its under side with zr medicated pad, and ocing adapted to be folded over the said pad D, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

1u testimony whereof I afx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JEROME B. DILLON. VVituesses:

BEN J. SHIVELL, W. P. LINTHICUM. 

